From carrie at stayfreemagazine.org Tue Nov 18 20:16:07 2003 From: carrie at stayfreemagazine.org (Carrie McLaren) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 20:16:07 -0500 Subject: Stay Free! | 18 November 2003 Message-ID: Hello, I just added a new page to the website: http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/21/reviews.html This is the section where we review books, movies, and other items we fancy -- namely: * Travel Naturally magazine * The Wyeth Pharmaceuticals calender * Found Magazine * When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store, by Elaine S. Abelson * Pootie Tang * FeralChildren.com * VD Attack Plan VD Attack Plan is an amazing 1973 public service film by Disney and since it's practically impossible to find, we asked our man Skip at AVGeeks.com to digitize it. If you've got a highspeed connection, you can download the movie here: http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/index.html OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST SEND THEM BACK http://www.sendthemback.org A BRILLIANT site urging file sharers to atone for "stealing music" by emailing all their mp3s to the RIAA. (Thanks to Mark Hosler) DOWNHILL BATTLE Another great site about digital music. This one documents how the music industry--with help from Apple's iTunes--is screwing over musicians as well as fans. A smart look at the politics of filesharing: http://www.downhillbattle.org/itunes/ (Thanks to Noah Scalin) EXPERIAN The Experian corporation claims to "hold more demographic and credit information on individuals and businesses than any other company in the world," and that very well may be. But what caught my eye was a new item in the company's fall catalog. Experian is now offering marketers the chance to use what it calls a "True Hipster" database. The catalog doesn't identify how Experian identified the true hipster, but from the accompanying photograph we know he wears a beige ski-cap and sunglasses. http://www.experian.com http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/Fall03Catalog.pdf (Thanks to Chris Hoofnagle) 'Two, Four, Six, Eight... This Pill Works Great!' Doctors Try Placebo Effect to Boost Power Of Real Drugs; Manipulating the Patient From the Wall Street Journal http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/wsj_placebo.html Unfortunately, this WSJ article ignores the crucial point that if doctors are allowed to lie to patients en masse then patients will trust them even less. It also says nothing about direct-to-consumer advertising, which in itself feeds placebo effects. I wrote about this years ago, incidentally, and the argument remains quite prescient if I dare say so myself: http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/16/advg_health.html And in case you missed it: "There's a killer haunting America's inner cities. Not drugs. Not handguns But... stress?" By Helen Epstein http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/12/magazine/12HEALTH.html UPCOMING STAY FREE!-RELATED EVENTS This Friday, 11/22, from 4 to 6 p.m. - New York, NY Distributed Creativity: A Conversation with Lawrence Lessig (Stanford University Law School). Carrie will be on this panel with Lessig, who will be discussing his group Creative Commons, and the creation of a "some rights reserved" system for collecting and putting creative works in the public domain. With Jonah Peretti, Jon Ippolito, & Joline Blais. at Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st Street bet. 10 & 11th Avenues. $5 public / $2 members http://www.eyebeam.org/distributedcreativity Sunday, 12/7, at 3 pm - Red Hook in Brooklyn, NY Carrie will be reading at Sundays at Sunny's reading series, along with David Rees (Get Your War On and My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable) and David Kocieniewski (The Brass Wall). At Sunny's, 253 Conover St. between Beard and Reed streets in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Info: 718 625-8211. 12/5-12/7, 7 pm and 9 pm - Seattle, WA Illegal Art film and video screenings at The Northwest Film Forum's ULTRA festival The Little Theater (608 19th Avenue East) Watch http://www.nwfilmforum.org for updates -- Carrie McLaren Editor, Stay Free! 718.398.9324 www.stayfreemagazine.org www.illegal-art.org From carrie at stayfreemagazine.org Sun Nov 30 22:38:04 2003 From: carrie at stayfreemagazine.org (Carrie McLaren) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:38:04 -0500 Subject: Stay Free! holiday gift offers Message-ID: Ahoy! If you're looking for more ways to spend money this holiday season please consider one of STAY FREE's holiday gift packages: $19.95 -- Gift subscription. We'll send your people a holiday package including the current issue, a personalized card, and our special (illegal) holiday music compilation -- a CD featuring weird and wonderful rarities from '60s surf bands, '50s teen dreams, and '80s talk show hosts (e.g. Bobby Vinton "Santa Must Be Polish" - Mike Douglas "Happy Birthday, Jesus" - Bobby Helms "Captain Santa Claus" - Buck Owens "Christmas Shopping" - Burt Bacharach "The Bell the Couldn't Jingle" - The Ventures "Sleigh Ride" - The Three Suns "Russian Sleigh Song" - The Avalanches "Winter Wonderland" - The Royal Guardsmen "It Kinda Looks Like Christmas" - Ramsey Lewis "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer" - Brenda Lee "Papa Noel" etc.), lovingly compiled by the Meat Mistress. $26.95 -- Bonus gift subscription. Same as the gift subscription but includes two back issues (Issues 17 & 18, but if you reeeealy want a different one let me know and I can make a substitute) $39.95 -- Gift subscription + DVD-R. Same as the gift subscription but comes with the Illegal Art DVD-R, featuring 11 shorts from the Illegal Art Exhibit plus Todd Haynes' classic _Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story_ ... get 'em before the lawyers come after us! (dvd info: http://www.illegal-art.org/video/dvd.html) Go here to order: http://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=ZQL&& happy happy, carrrie